While I can’t imagine anyone visiting this blog hasn’t already been to the carnvival, I thought I’d better get the link up, just in case. Why am I always behind on this? Anyway, the Carnival of Homeschooling is rocking over at the Lilting House.
And for anyone who didn’t notice, that entry on a name for my homeschool was not serious. See, it even made it into the Carnival of Satire. Someone on my other blog commented that she thought I was serious until she got to the actual names. Sorry about that…I did think later to change the title, imagining that my little jab at public education would go totally unnoticed due to a rather uninformative title. Oh well. There is still time to vote (just check the sidebar). And I’ve had some other suggestions, as well…I like these:
The 1984 Ministry of Education.The Bill Clinton School of Etiquette and Integrity.
The David Duke and Jesse Jackson School of Racial Harmony
Xavier’s School for Gifted Children
The Norman Bates Child Depository
The Susan Estrich Center for the Destruction of Male Intellect
The Joseph Stalin Center for Human Discourse
The Joseph McCarthey Institute of Liberal Thinking
Anyway, I’ll accept write in candidates as well, if you like any of these better than what I have in the poll, although that makes tabulating a little more difficult. After all, to be well socialized, I have to consider first what everyone else thinks before my own dangerously unique ideas can be expressed. And it would be great fun to write that on a college application as part of the high school transcript.
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I thought the names were quite funny myself.
Thanks! And, as of right now, I finally have a leader. I’m sort of partial to “The George W. Bush Institute for the Standardization of Intellectual Output” myself.
But the “Bill Clinton School of Etiquette and Integrity” has its merits, too.
How about…
“Ve have vays to make you TAKS”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
But the “Bill Clinton School of Etiquette and Integrity” has its merits, too.
Needs more of a southern drawl…those Texans know their TAKS!
This has been the funniest post I’ve read in a while. Sorry I didn’t get to commenting on the last round. Thanks for the laugh. I must show these to DH. We need to properly name so we can properly educate, no? (But don’t you donate to get your name on it? I’m holding out for our “Bill Gates Institute for Economic Overachievement.”)
Thanks, Anna-Marie! I like that one, too!
You can donate to get your name on a school. But some people of great honor who upholds the ideals you wish to emulate also get their names on schools and such. There is some highway in TX named after George Bush, and I don’t think Kennedy donated to get the name of Cape Canaveral change.
So I think, since these great men so clearly uphold the values I wish to convey through these titles, that their service alone merits the naming of the school.